Can anyone send money? We lost our credit cards, our wallets, our motorhome got stuck in one of the tunnels around Mt. Rushmore! Can anybody help a friend? Please wire money!! (Inside Joke)
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| This is Wall SD - just jokin! |
We left Ellsworth AFB Family Camp bright and early Monday morning and not too far down the road is Wall South Dakota. Everyone has to stop at Wall at least once in their life!! It has quite a history of how it came about. The Hustead family bought a drug store in Wall in 1931. They would give it five years to be able to build up the business and be able to support their family. Well as you know, this was the great depression and times were hard. The five years was just about up, and business was not that good. The wife came up with a great idea. Mt. Rushmore had just been completed and lots of traffic was passing by, but wasn't stopping. It was a hot and dusty summer July day. Dorothy said we need to advertise free ice cold water. They put up signs on the road, and sure enough people started stopping, and of course buying other things also. Will needless to say, they finally made a go of it, and still offer free ice water and added free coffee and dough-nuts to veterans and honeymooners!!
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| Got the bull by the horns! |
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| A friend of Vern |
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| A jackalope |
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| The actual Wall |
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| The Gambler |
Are you sure the RV's not stuck in the Philippines?
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